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The Last Journey of a Genius: Richard Feynman’s Quest to Visit the Remote Lost Land of Tuva
The Last Journey of a Genius: Richard Feynman’s Quest to Visit the Remote Lost Land of Tuva

“I’m an explorer, okay? I get curious about everything, and I want to investigate all kinds of stuff.”

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The Magic of Seeds and the Science of Insuring Earth’s Future
The Magic of Seeds and the Science of Insuring Earth’s Future

What tiny parachutes and a man named Wolfgang have to do with the future of all living species.

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The Happiness of Pursuit: What Science and Philosophy Can Teach Us About the Holy Grail of Existence
The Happiness of Pursuit: What Science and Philosophy Can Teach Us About the Holy Grail of Existence

“When fishing for happiness, catch and release.”

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27 of Humanity’s Strangest Inventions
27 of Humanity’s Strangest Inventions

If you can’t deliver the newspaper on your amphibious bicycle, you can always fax it.

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The Baloney Detection Kit: A 10-Point Checklist for Science Literacy
The Baloney Detection Kit: A 10-Point Checklist for Science Literacy

How to assess the believability of claims without succumbing to cynicism.

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The Idea Factory: Insights on Creativity from Bell Labs and the Golden Age of Innovation
The Idea Factory: Insights on Creativity from Bell Labs and the Golden Age of Innovation

Successful innovation requires the meeting of the right people at the right place with just the right problem.

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The Importance of Frustration in the Creative Process, Animated
The Importance of Frustration in the Creative Process, Animated

“Before we can find the answer — before we can even know the question — we must be immersed in disappointment.”

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Connectome: A New Way To Think About What Makes You You
Connectome: A New Way To Think About What Makes You You

“You are more than your genes. You are your connectome.”

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How Creativity Works
How Creativity Works

Inside the ‘seething cauldron of ideas,’ or what Bob Dylan has to do with the value of the synthesizer mind.

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The Vital Interplay of Intuition and Rationality in Love and the Emotional Mind
The Vital Interplay of Intuition and Rationality in Love and the Emotional Mind

Why, in love, “one must balance a respect for proof with a fondness for the unproven and the unprovable.”

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